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All right. I'd like to go ahead and call
this regular city council meeting to

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order on Monday, March 19th, 2026 at 6
p.m. If we could rise with pled of

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allegiance, please.
>> I pledge the algiance to the flag of the

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United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation

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under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all.

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» Holly, will you call the role, please?
Bloodwick

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» here.
>> Haynes, Jenkins

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» here,
>> Grimes

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» here,
>> Gilroy

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» here,
>> Hansen,

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» yes.
>> Uh, we also had notification from

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Councilman Haynes and Councilman
Vanzberg that they would not be able to

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be here this evening. I'm looking for a
motion to excuse your absence.

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» So move.
>> Do I have support?

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» Second.
>> Thank you. All in favor say I.

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» I opposed. Motion carries. I'm looking
for approval of this evening's agenda

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unless there are changes that need to be
noted. to approve.

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» Thank you. Support.
>> Second.

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» All right. Thank you. All those in favor
say I.

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» I.
>> Opposed. Motion carries.

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» Just as an aside, if we had one more
person gone, we couldn't meet. Is that

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right?
>> Uh, no. We four. We have four, but then

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everything has to be unanimous and
nobody can vote no.

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» Okay.
>> But if you vote no,

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» let's never get to that point.
>> Thank you, Carrie.

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» All righty. Now, we have an opportunity
for audience participation with a

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maximum of five minutes per
presentation. Would anybody like to come

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forward? Please come forward. State your
name for us.

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Caroline Canarelli.
>> Hi Caroline. How are you? We haven't

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seen you in a while.
>> I know.

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» Can't come out with our golf carts
anymore.

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» Why not?
>> Okay. This is a concern about the lights

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that go through town
and we notice that you're

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doing away with the amber lights and
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» Okay.
>> Why?

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» Um I'll go ahead and respond to that. We
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comment, but those are DTE lights and
those lights, those ballots are all

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getting changed so so that they can be
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appreciate your
>> I've had so many people tell me and

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friends and relatives that come in town
how how nice it is with the amber lights

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ambient, you know,
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their life expectancy. You'll notice
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rest are, you know, all that new LED
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and so, you know,
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» Yeah. I'm sorry.
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coming out on such a sunny day,
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» Appreciate it.
>> Would anybody else like to come forward

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during public comment?
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» state your name for us.
>> Hi, Marie Bowen. Uh, I just came here to

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introduce myself. I'm opening Run Boo,
which is a run and strength studio in

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town. Our grand opening is April 11th,
and hopefully we can schedule a ribbon

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cutting ceremony and see you guys all
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» All right. Thanks so much for coming and
introducing you yourself and we're

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excited to have another business down in
our our uh downtown area.

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» Thank you. I'm excited to collaborate.
>> Thank you. Anyone else at this time? All

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right. Moving forward, we've got our
council meeting minutes of February

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23rd, 2026. I'm looking for approval
unless there are changes that need to be

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noted.
>> Move to approve.

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» Do I have support?
>> Thank you. All those in favor say I. I.

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» I. Opposed. Motion carries. Terry, you
had an opportunity to review accounts

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payable. Can you tell us where the money
went?

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» Where did all that money go? Okay, so um
an interesting thing I said last time

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that was not quite correct. I said the
street lights are 50% of our electric

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bill. That's not quite the case. It's
50% of what you might call the municipal

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electric bill. So, the municipal
electric bill includes all of our DPW

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buildings, this building right here,
police station, some of the lift

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stations and other things like that, but
that's only about half. There's the

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other half, which I saw this time, is
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water treatment plant, which are big,
big electric loads. So, street lights

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are actually only about one quarter of
our total electric bill. And one of the

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reasons why we've got the white ones
coming in, they're less expensive. So,

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» for what?
>> They're less expensive to run.

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They're less expensive.
>> Yeah. Yeah. So I Yeah. Um so that's my

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interesting thing in
>> Thank you, Carrie. Appreciate it.

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» Time around. And as usual, this this
just gobsmacks me. The um the advil

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valorum things that we pay to other
government units were again 80% of the

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amount of money that we spent in our
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» Yep. So, um,
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» all right,
>> I will, uh, make a motion to approve

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checks 78908-78,928

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and AC2099-2133

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for a grand total of 864,428.25.

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» Thank you very much, Terry. Does anybody
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payable this week?
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» Oh, one other interesting thing. Um, if
you get caught driving while

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intoxicated, it's going to cost you 10
$15,000, something like that. It's a

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very expensive thing. Well, I found out
this time around, it's also expensive

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for the municipality that catches you
and and charges you. Yeah. So, we're

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having to pay uh lawyer Romley, I think
it is. We're having to pay them because

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we're prosecuting an EWI,
>> but I think we get it back if with as

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part of a conviction. So, that's what
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» more trivia. Thank you. All right. All
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[clears throat]
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» Thank you. Holly, will you call the
role, please?

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» Ryan,
>> yes.

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» Gilroy,
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» Lewig,
>> yes.

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» Hansen,
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» Jenkins,
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» All right. We have a very short list of
action items this evening. Our first is

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to set budget work session dates.
Monday, May 11th or T and Tuesday, May

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26. We do have a memo in our packet from
our city manager, John Hanniban. I'll

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turn it over to him.
>> Thank you. This is part of the annual

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budget process for our fiscal year. Um
per charter a draft budget is required

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to be presented to council by the April
April. It's the first meeting in April.

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This year it's April 13th. And then part
of the uh process is the work sessions

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that we have the two a minimum of two.
We've never gone beyond that but there's

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nothing that says that we can't. And
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millillage rates, utility rates and fees
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[laughter] reason we do these early. I
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a budget adopted by the end of June.
This gives us plenty of time. Um, if

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there's, it's happened before throughout
my career. There's changes to weather,

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building issues. So, you can, you know,
come back later at a later date and and

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finish the process. So, pretty simple.
tonight. It's just the motions to set

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the budget work sessions for Monday, May
11th, and Tuesday, May 26th, which is

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the day after Memorial Day,
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for the millage rates, utility rates,
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» All right, great. Any questions before I
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need two motions. So, I'm looking for
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I'd move that we set our budget work
sessions as provided May 11th and May

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26th.
>> Thank you. Do I have support?

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» All right. Hollywood, call the role,
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» Rimes,
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» Gilroy,
>> yes.

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» Leadwick,
>> yes.

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» Hansen,
>> yes.

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» Jenkins,
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» All right. And I'm looking for that
second motion, please.

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» Make a motion to set the following
public hearings for May 26th of this

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year. Fiscal year 26 27 mill rates.
Fiscal year 2627 utility rates and fees.

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Fiscal year 26 27 fiscal year budget.
>> Thank you. Do I have support?

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» Support.
>> Thank you. Holly, will you call the

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role, please?
>> Gilroy,

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» yes.
>> Lewig,

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» yes.
>> Hansen,

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» yes.
>> Jenkins,

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» yes.
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» yes.
>> All right. Our last action item of this

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evening is easement for Innovation
Parkway. And we do have a memo in our

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packet. I'll turn that over to our city
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» Thank you. So, the goal here is to to
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which is the the LLC that owns the the
currently vacant PI engineering

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building. Innovation Parkway is the
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And if you can you can see on the aerial
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was intended, but based on my research
was to was going to go all the way to um

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Centurion Way, which is one of the loot
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Um what came to light is there is a
purchase agreement for that building and

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as part of their due diligence it was
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easement, the easement was not correctly
described from a from a

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kind of a meets and bounds perspective
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[cough and clears throat] was it ever
registered. So when we acquired that

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property, this is part of that. It's
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Um, and that's just one of those those
interesting anomalies when you work in a

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town long enough. Um, so what we're
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driveway to be included in an easement.
The easement language was prepared and

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reviewed by by Mr. Cron's office. It
doesn't grant an exclusive right. It

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just allows the building to have access
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We're not required to maintain it. And
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when we we acquired that property. If it
can facilitate the sale of that that

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that property to a a new entity and have
a have it be occupied by some sort of

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business, that's a good thing. So I'd
have you happy to try and answer any

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questions you may have. I mean I was
doing researching the archives and uh

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there was a recommendation for that road
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that that got you know abandoned
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said about 20 years ago. All right. Any
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» With this easement, you said it doesn't
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you know, we've just reacquired a lot of
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wanted that to go the whole way through
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feas. Absolutely.
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» All right. Great question. Thank you.
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obligation for the city to maintain it
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effectively.
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make the motion then.
>> Where is that motion?

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» It's going to be down on the bottom of
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» Make a motion to grant the attached
easement to 101 Innovation LLC, a

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Michigan Limited Liability Company,
whose address is 2375

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Woodlake Drive, Sweet 380 Okamus,
Michigan 48864.

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Thank you so much. Do I have support?
>> Thank you. If there's no other

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questions, Holly, would you call the
role, please?

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» Lewick,
>> yes.

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» Hansen,
>> yes.

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» Jenkins,
>> yes.

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» Gilroy,
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» All right, that concludes our action
items for this evening. Moving down

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along our agenda, we have our discussion
items, which is our main four safety

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improvements. Do we have any
>> Nothing to update this time. Haven't

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haven't heard back from the state, but
that was to be expected.

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» All right. Continuing along our agenda,
correspondence received. We do not have

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anything. So, we'll move right into
department head reports and I'll go back

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to our city manager John Han for his
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last Friday the the mayor and the chief
of police, we were invited to business

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leadership lunchon which I thought was
excellent and well attended. We had some

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folks here in the audience that were
there. I thought it was a really good

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discussion and a dialogue about, you
know, bringing the business community

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together and talk through common common
issues and and, you know, strategize on

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how to to make Wellington an even better
place. So, I thought that was a really

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good first step. So, that was good. Um,
about a year ago, we adopted you, we put

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these resolutions in front of you
seeking grant funds, and I always with

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the qualifier that it's usually
difficult for us in particular because

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we're we're we're a non-entitlement
community. that means that we're doing

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really well. But I'm happy to announce
that we did receive a4 million grant to

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help pave Industrial Park Drive in
Progress Court. So that's part of the

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TED FB project. No idea what that
afterward. I could make up what it

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means, but you could look it up if you
really needed to know. So that is uh

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2026 uh fiscal year project for the
state. So, we're going to be required to

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have that as they call obligated before
the end of the state's fiscal year,

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which is uh the last day in September of
this year. But, um based on that, we had

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planned to do those projects as part of
the they are in the TIFFA district and

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so it's TIFFA funds that that are paying
for it. Um we'll still have plenty of

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funds to do that if we do in fact
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We got a meeting with MDOT MDOT
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that whether we just have to have it
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their current fiscal year and then for
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may do that. One thing that will allow
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economy of scale for paving because as
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presented in the visioning session to do
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» and we can bundle this project together.
So we'll really save a lot on

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mobilization. So, um, so beyond the
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it's will really help queue up a lot of
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» excellent.
>> So, it was a good way to end the week

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last.
>> Yeah, that's great. That's great news.

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» Sort of a related thing. Remember
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Senator Water something something was
going to do was Lloyd Street and uh

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William Street and it was kind of
pending pending pending. Did we ever get

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that money?
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» Three million was what the total grant
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» So, so we're awarded that. We haven't we
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that, but we we expect to receive that.
>> That was one of the things um John

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covered that in uh our visioning, I
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some more paperwork
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first branch will come through.
>> We'll we'll keep shaking that limb on

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that money tree at the state of Michigan
to get our money. Well, and and on that

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and on that front, I mean, the the
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nice way, there's a like a, you know,
more derogatory term for those

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» or somebody.
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» Well, no [laughter]
for the program

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more derogatory term for pork rail
projects is what they were called.

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» I just said,
>> but anyway, no. Don't turn this.

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» No, no, no. My my my point is bring it
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» There's congressional ear marks again.
There's Senate eararks again. So those

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are all due right right this month. And
so we we've submitted every year that

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I've been here for those for wastewater
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again this year. And you know we'll
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challenge. It's difficult but we were
successful once which sometimes helps

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sometimes doesn't. So
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» See the fans how long we've been waiting
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a half?
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» Year and half.
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» That's all I have. All right. Thank you,
Chief. Thank you for your memo and here.

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Would you like to expound upon it?
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did um if you recall, we had the lean,
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network uh audit that we came through to
find colors. Thanks to officer Smith and

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Vonnie uh did a great job. But we also
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Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement
Standards assessment which assessed uh

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three areas of the department, our
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history records and they know we had
full compliance with no issues. So that

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was those are the two big audits by the
uh by the state if you will and we did

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great and and we provided escort for the
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members that went to states uh last
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And you guys do so many great things.
And I just have to compliment you with

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Officer Pong helping one of our military
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If you didn't see it on Facebook and see
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Officer Pong um executed a traffic stop
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in front. They had no idea that the
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with Officer Bong. And so he got to
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from deployment. Y
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» year in Korea.
>> A year in Korea. So just wonderful. So

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» it was great.
>> You do a lot of great things, but it's

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these other little things that make it
just so special. that uh that had the

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most uh Facebook uh stats, most Facebook
likes, loves, comments of any Facebook

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post we've ever had.
>> Excellent. Keep it up. Keep it up.

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» Watch it when you're done and grab your
tissue.

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» So, just so you know, you can ask the
police department to do special things.

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They will uh they'll come up with
something very clever and um you know,

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let's see if we can beat that Facebook,
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» Thank you. And please extend thank you
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» I will.
>> All righty. um in our P. Yeah. Yes. Go

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ahead.
>> I had a question for Chief as it relates

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to the M. Cole's audit. Is that a pass
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basis as to how well you comply?
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the second one, the MCOS is is an
assessment which isn't necessarily past

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fail, but you do have to as they
describe it to us, you do have to comply

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with uh uh these three areas. Uh if you
don't comply, then they will assist you

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in compliance. Um but the lean is
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» If that makes sense.
>> This is the answer to the question, how

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do you know you live in a small town?
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the police stop your relatives to let
you know you've come back from

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deployment. Exactly.
>> Yeah, absolutely.

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» All right. Uh our last uh is our
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which is our Livingston County of
building and safety engineering. They

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are who uh issue all of the permits for
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residential, commercial. Uh, so if you
do have any questions regarding what's

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happening and going on in our wonderful
city of Williamson, please reach out to

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John and he will contact Livingston
County and get those answered for you.

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Moving along our agenda, we've got our
committee subcommittee reports. Did

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anyone have a committee meeting that
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this evening?
>> I have one coming up this week. It's a

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Nissa meeting.
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» And there's the floating public member.
What is it called? The open member at

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large.
>> Member at large. large election is

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coming up sometime. Um, and I'm I'm
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item where we discuss the process of
electing that open that open member. So,

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if you know somebody, Dan, who might be
interested in that job, please get a

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hold of me or let me know about it or
and I'll try to keep you guys up to

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speed on how that process is going.
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» great. Thank you. All right, anyone
else? All right, moving along our

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agenda. We have another opportunity for
audience part participation with a

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maximum of five minutes per
presentation. Was that the timer that

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we're done with the meeting?
>> All right. Would anybody like to come

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forward at this time for our last
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All right. Council member comments. I'll
start down at this end with Tim.

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» You know what I would say is um it's
really nice to see all the improvements

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consistently happening where people are
improving their properties and you know

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making the
nicer.

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» Yeah, it's good to see. Yeah.
>> New business owner, where do you live

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here?
>> Um, yep. I live in Williamston on

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Shaffburg between Hasla and Bella.
>> Cool. We're very glad to have you here.

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» I'm very excited. Thank you for inviting
me to the Z.

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» All right,
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» Sort of echoing that comment. It is good
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occupied. So, the two main two of the
main ones that have been vacant for a

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while, it's good to see that they uh are
going to be on right now.

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» Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
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» All right. Well, as you can see, we went
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Sunday. So, it is staying lighter longer
out there. And that means that we're

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just going to have a lot more activities
that are happening in our wonderful town

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of Williamson, which if you'll notice, I
brought in my uh lucky shamrock hat with

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pot of gold. I've got on my earrings and
my shirt because this Friday um one of

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our first events for this year is going
to be our uh Shamrock Shuffle through

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town. We have a 10-stop pub crawl that
starts at 5:00 pm. Continues on uh with

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gathering at Zinda's for the end of the
rainbow pot of gold party. Um we'll have

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a DJ uh a photo booth like we did um
after the ugly sweater crawl um during

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our light parade weekend. Um we're
really excited that we've got 10

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participating restaurants including
Brookshshire and also the Eagles. So,

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you can find it more more information on
our Williamston um events Facebook page,

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but again, it starts at 5:00. You can go
to all or a few of the participating

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restaurants, show up at Zindas at the
end of the evening. We're going to have

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some fun giveaways. We're going to have
some uh drawings, and then we're also

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going to vote for the best restaurant
experience out of the 10. Um, so it's uh

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definitely something not to be missed as
we, you know, kick off springtime. And,

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uh, we've got a lot of other great, uh,
events coming forward, um, that we're

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working on. Um, and we'll, uh, we'll
share those as they continue to get

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closer. But, um, just excited that it's
light out again. We did not beat my

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record time of shortest council meeting
by about five minutes. But anyways, I'm

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going to go ahead and say just enjoy
this beautiful sunshine before the

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weather's turn, you know, second winter,
third winter, fake spring, whatever you

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want to call it. Um, get out there and
enjoy the sunshine. Stop at Twister,

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stop at Candy Cafe, get your ice cream
cuz it's warm outside. And, um, with

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that, I will go ahead and call to a
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» Quick. Good job.
>> 18 minutes.